Chapter 24 30's and Depression

Question 1

What happened on “black Tuesday”

Answer 1

the stock market crashed

Question 2

Who is Dorthea Lange?

Answer 2

a famous photographer during the Great Depression

Question 3

What was the Bonus Army?

Answer 3

veterans of World War I who camped in Washington and demanded their bonus early

Question 4

Who won the Election of 1932

Answer 4

FDR

Question 5

What was the 3 parts of the New Deal?

Answer 5

Relief, Recover, Reform

Question 6

Who were the “Brain Trust”

Answer 6

group of advisers who assisted FDR in making early economic policy

Question 7

What is the RFC and what did it do?

Answer 7

Reconstruct Finance Corporation that gave money to the state governments to improve the economy

Question 8

What is the CCC and what did it do?

Answer 8

Civilian Conservation Corps and it gave unemployment relief

Question 9

What is the FERA and what did it do?

Answer 9

Federal Emergency Relief Administration and it directed federal money for relief, funneled through state and local governments.

Question 10

What is AAA and what did it do?

Answer 10

Agricultural Adjustment Administration that brought federal farm aid

Question 11

What is the NIRA and what did it do?

Answer 11

National Industrial Recovery Act and it used self-regulating industrial codes to revive economic activity

Question 12

What is the PWA and what did it do?

Answer 12

Public Works Administration and it increased employment by starting federal public work projects

Question 13

What did the Emergency Banking Relief Act do?

Answer 13

it enlarged federal authority over private banks

Question 14

What did the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act do?

Answer 14

It created Large scale public work programs for the jobless

Question 15

What did the Social Security Act do?

Answer 15

it gave pensions to old-aged citizens and gave unemployment insurance

Question 16

What did the National Labor Relations Act do?

Answer 16

guaranteed the right to organize trade unions and collective bargain

Question 17

What did the Resettlement Administration do?

Answer 17

Relocated poor rural families and started reforestation and soil erosion projects

Question 18

What did the National Housing Act do?

Answer 18

funded public housing and slum clearance

Question 19

What did the Fair Labor Standards Act do?

Answer 19

established minimum wage and maximum hours

Question 20

What did the Wagner Act do?

Answer 20

it guaranteed basic rights of workers to organize into trade unions

Question 21

What was the Congress of Industrial Organizations?

Answer 21

a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions.

Question 22

What did the National Reclamation Act do?

Answer 22

it funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states

Question 23

What did the Federal Writers Project do?

Answer 23

funded writers all across the country

Question 24

Who was the key speaker on the Fireside chat?

Answer 24

FDR

Question 25

Who used the Blue Eagle?

Answer 25

companies that wanted to show compliance with the National Industrial Recovery Act

Question 26

Who were in the American Liberty League?

Answer 26

conservative Democrats that opposed the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 27

What did Father Coughlin do?

Answer 27

he used the radio to reach a mass audience to criticize FDR

Question 28

What did Francis Townsend propose?

Answer 28

a monthly pension of $200 for all citizens over 60

Question 29

What did Huey Long propose?

Answer 29

a "share the wealth" program

Question 30

Who was Frances Perkins?

Answer 30

the first woman appointed to the U.S. cabinet. She was the U.S. Secretary of Labor

Question 31

What was the "New Deal coalition"?

Answer 31

FDR's fan club that later supported the democratic party until the 1960's

Question 32

Who was Henry Wallace?(3)

Answer 32

33rd Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce

Question 33

Where was Boulder Dam and what is its current name?

Answer 33

on the Colorado River, Hoover Dam

Question 34

What did the Grapes of Wrath focus on?

Answer 34

the migration of the Okies from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl

Question 35

What did the Schecter v. US case do?

Answer 35

overturned the NRA

Question 36

What did the court packing plan propose to do?

Answer 36

replace the older judges on the Supreme Court with new ones

Question 37

What was the Black Cabinet?

Answer 37

an informal group of African-American public policy advisors to United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 38

What did Mary MacLeod Bethune do?

Answer 38

she founded a school for African American students in Florida

Question 39

Who was the Secretary of the Treasury during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 39

Henry Morgenthau